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alone maintained the efficiency, but largely added to the strength and good
work, and the great prosperity which it has attained under his guidance.
It would be impossible to give here the bare titles of the numerous books
and articles from his pen. There are 89 entries in the Royal Society's
Catalogue of Scientific Papers ; and it is notable how largely his contributions
have added to our knowledge of the various species and homology of the
Cetaceans.
The portrait which we reproduce is certainly the best ever taken of him
and was photographed by Elliott and Fry, in 1889. It is somewhat reduced
in proportion, and forms but part of the original, which was taken in the
Central Hall against one of the Cases in the Index Museum, the arrangements
and actual details of which had been so largely the work of his own hands.
We are greatly indebted to the Editor of the Zoologist for permission to repro-
duce this portrait.
A Memorial Service was held in the Church of St. Luke, Chelsea, on the
5th July, when his friend Dr. Gregory, the Dean of Westminster, officiated :
and at the same time the remains were cremated at Woking : being subse-
quently buried in the Churchyard of Stone, Bucks.
With the consent of the Trustees it is proposed to erect a Memorial in
the Whale Room of the Museum as a token of regard for the great services he
rendered to science. It will consist of a Bust in Marble, and a Brass Tablet,
the cost being defrayed by Subscription.
Personally I shall ever feel grateful for the help and encouragement he
extended for so many years, especially in connection with the interesting
group of Whales and Dolphins. While I am also indebted to him for many
facts and details regarding his family connections with the County of
Hertfordshire.,
Walter Crouch.
THE LATE LIEUT.-GENERAL PITT-RIVERS,
D.C.L., F.R.S.
By the death of Gen. Pitt-Rivers the Essex Field Club have to deplore
not only the loss of a prominent man of science but also of an old and
tried friend. The deceased General was for many years an Honorary Member
of the Club and he will long be remembered for the interest he took in its
work and more especially for his generosity and advice in connection with
the excavations of Loughton Camp and Amesbury Banks.
General Pitt-Rivers will possibly be better known by many as Colonel
Lane Fox, under which name he had contributed greatly to anthropological
1 Some facts are worthy of note in regard to some of his family connections. His great
Uncle, Benjamin Flower, (1755-1629), was a noted man, a Political Writer and Editor of the
Cambridge Intelligencer. He was prosecuted for libel by the House of Lords in 1799, for
which he spent six months in Newgate, and had to pay a fine ot £100. Later on he settled at
Harlow, and produced the, Political Register in 1807. Of his two daughters, Sarah
who was married to William Bridger Adams in 1834, was a poetess ; and the authoress of the
famous Hymn "Nearer my God to Thee," and "He sendeth sun. He sendeth showers"
Her elder sister Eliza was a musical composer, and is still well remembered by the fine
quartette "Now pray we for our Country."